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While Florida's political leaders differ on many key issues, all agree on protecting Florida's environment. More than 2.5 million acres have been protected in the three decades since Govs. Bob Martinez and Jeb Bush created the land-buying programs Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever. These critical lands help recharge our drinking water and protect wildlife, ecotourism and outdoor recreation. The Nature Conservancy has supported the protection of these lands and waters, and helped maximize public and private dollars to fund them. Nearly 75 percent of Florida voters in 2014 approved Amendment 1 to the state constitution. Let's encourage legislators to develop long-term...

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While Florida's political leaders differ on many key issues, all agree on protecting Florida's environment.
More than 2.5 million acres have been protected in the three decades since Govs. Bob Martinez and Jeb Bush created the land-buying programs...

THE VILLAGES — Members of the new Preserve Our Environment community discussion group hope to educate and motivate those who attend to learn more about sustaining and protecting natural resources.Since the group's first meeting in November, expert...

U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Winter Garden, picked up a third infrastructure subcommittee assignments Tuesday, giving him seats on House of Representatives boards that will oversee legislation dealing with highways, water resources, railroads and...

Wildlife biologists are putting tracking collars and cameras on bears near Central Florida neighborhoods.
The devices, which rely on GPS technology, beam the animal's location to a computer every half-hour and may help the study team understand where...

Here's a question for Florida lawmakers: What part of yes don't you understand?
Last month almost three-quarters of state voters said yes to a constitutional amendment requiring lawmakers to spend one-third of the annual revenues from the state's...

Granted, it is difficult to capture nuances in a brief news article about a candidates night. Be that as it may, the account of an Orange County political event gave the unfortunate impression that "testing, accountability and choice" form an...

First of two parts.
A death occurred on Nov. 13, and nobody even has noticed. The way things are now, they probably never will.
That's the day the Alliance to Protect Water Resources, an activist group in south Lake, voted to disband, saying few...

Floridians got some encouraging environmental news recently. Over the past decade, we pumped less water out of the ground even as the state's population grew by nearly 3 million. Conservation was cited as one of several factors that afforded relief to our...

Right plants, right place
Regarding the article "Legal fights drag on over Florida-friendly landscapes" in Sunday's Sentinel: With growth predicted to double Central Florida's population in the next two decades, it's immensely important that we...

Florida voters are facing a number of tough choices on this year's general election ballot.
Amendment 1 is not among them. Supporting the Water and Land Conservation Amendment is an easy choice. It's the right call for Florida's future.
Amendment 1...

To help promote freshwater-resource education, awareness and projects, the Lake County Water Authority has awarded $22,627.70 in mini grants to 23 public- and private-school teachers.
Some of the annual "Drop-by-Drop: You Make a Difference"...

Is it surprising that opponents of Amendment 1 are hard to find?
Nearly 1 million people signed petitions to place the Water and Land Conservation Amendment on Florida's Nov. 4 ballot. The Florida Supreme Court approved its wording, and the state's...

TALLAHASSEE — For Florida environmentalists, the fate of the Wekiva-Ocala Greenway is emblematic of why they are taking the fight over preserving green spaces to the voters this fall.
Amendment 1 on the November ballot sounds like a godsend for green...

State Sen. David Simmons this week encouraged commercial real-estate brokers to embrace a water-quality initiative on November's ballot.The Altamonte Springs Republican briefed members of a commercial real-estate association on Wednesday about Amendment...

The Lake County Adopt-a-Lake program is seeking photos of a named Lake County body of water for its 2015 Adopt-a-Lake calendar.
A panel of volunteers will rate the shots and pick the semifinalists; and then the public can vote online for their favorite...

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida voters will decide whether to dedicate hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year to land and water conservation when they cast their ballots this fall.
And the question of whether to legalize medical marijuana may also be...

Texas billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens was in Central Florida on March 7 to talk with the Orlando Sentinel’s editorial board. Pickens has shifted his energy interests to natural gas, which he says is the best way for the United States to reduce its...

If you're in a hurry, you don't belong on Sanibel.
That friendly admonition has been a pearl of wisdom on this leisurely Gulf Coast island for decades. In the 1970s, when a high-school buddy and I used to take day trips across the remote Alligator...

MIAMI — Just because the moonlight bike tours and guided swamp walks have ended for the season and most of the migratory birds have moved on doesn't mean there's no reason to visit the Everglades this spring and summer.
The hottest, stickiest, rainiest...